Wade in the water
Subtitle: great moments in Black history
By: Lerone Bennett, Jr.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Johnson Pub. Co.
Published: 1979
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill., USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
Subjects: African Americans -- History -- Addresses, essays, lectures; United States -- Race relations -- Addresses, essays, lectures
Description: Wade In the Water gives the reader a front-row seat at some of the most dramatic events in American history. Starting with the founding of Black America at the first Black convention, the book re-creates the drama and the human dimensions of Nat Turner's slave revolt and Harriet Tubman's slave raids and makes the reader a witness and a participant in key events of the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Freedom Movement of the twentieth century. There is also a pioneering chapter on sports as history, Jack Johnson and the Great White Hope, which was the basis of the national television.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 301-307.
Includes index.